Word: zioncheck
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...municipal election Mayor Edwards summarily dismissed Superintendent Ross for "inefficiency, disloyalty and wilful neglect." Nobody questioned Mayor Edwards' authority to discharge his Superintendent of City Light. What was questioned, though, were the reasons the Mayor gave for his action. Two ambitious young lawyers, M. A. Zioncheck and Frank Fitts, organized the Citizens' Municipal Utilities Protective League with the avowed purpose of having Mayor Edwards recalled. The charges were, among other things, that he had dismissed Mr. Ross under false pretenses and that he appointed an incompetent manager of the street railway system. Petitions were circulated and signed...